SHABBATH SHALOM

Parashah Shelach

Parshat Shelach contains a justly famous description of the Land of Israel as a "land flowing with milk and honey."  The riches of Eretz Yisrael have endowed our people with a sense of home and of promise from our earliest ages. 

The meraglim scouted the land as far as Hebron. At the wadi Eshcol, they cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes so large that it had to be borne on a carrying frame by two of them, as well as some pomegranates and figs

We first drawn and colored a map of the Land of Israel then glued it on a basis of polystyrene.

Afterward we made figs, grapes and pomegranate with a air dry modelling clay that is ready to use. Let it harden and then painted with a acrylic colors.

once the paint is dry we put our big fruits  on the polystyrene tray, just coming from Erertz Yisrael, brought by the meraglim.

Parashah Beha'alotekha

Beha’alotecha opens with the command to Aaron to light the menorah, followed by the inauguration and qualifications of the Levites’ Divine service.
We did a cut and paste project with a printed template and some glitter  to make it look like gold. Print the Menorah on yellow cardboard, cut it out and glue it on a blue cardboard. Use glitter to decore it and make the children draw the flames and Aaron

multilingual numbers wheel

Do the same as for the animal multilingual wheel ( http://ourjewishlittleplace.blogspot.it/2012/06/multilingual-animal-wheel.html)
But this time use numbers.

multilingual animal wheel

On a cardboard glue a circle of paper divided into segments with an animal in each segment.
Then write on the wooden clips the initials of each animal, with the corresponding letters in English, Hebrew and, possibly, in another language.  

Let the children find the right clip corresponding to the animal and put it in the right place

painting the beauty of life

from isreali artist Jordana Klein "Yellow flower" my daugthers painted their flowers.

Here's the result, with a lot of fun with all the bright colours...

Nasso - Birkat Kohanim

G-d tells Moshè about a special mitzvah that Aaron and his sons have: to bless the People of Israel. We still do this in the synagogue, at the end of holiday services, it's called Birkat Kohanim. 
And we tried to draw and color it...

web ideas

a teacher prayer

CHAG SHAVUOT SAMEACH!!

CHAG SAMEACH

Sewn felt toy Torah

Torah a toy made ​​of felt.
We used two rolling pins to which I glued the two ends of a strip of white felt quite long. 

Then I sewed some blue felt as the coverage of our sefer adding a golden ribbon. Then decorated it with a marker an acrylic gold marker. Ready to use to teach the Matan Torah.

Shavuot Sinay board

A board showing the flowered Har Sinay (made of green felt and tissue and felt flowers, as the clouds). The fence is made of chopsticks.Then the printed tablets are attached with velcro as the two Torah crowns.

CHAG SAMEACH!!!!

Shavuot cookies

An "har Sinay" made of choco cookies covered with flowers and roses shaped cookies for Shavuot.

Shavuot. Ten commandments tablets box

A cardboard box (you can use a  chocolates box) with removables laminated paper tables with Asèret hadvarìm.

Outside box, covered up with purple crepe paper

inside the box the two commandments tablets, removable, being attached with velcro and ten little images for the children to match up with the ten commandments.

parashah Bamidbar

Tribal flags in the Machane

 

Starting a new sefer! Sefer Bamidbar. This parsha has lots of lists and numbers but it also introduces the concept of the 12 tribes and the design of the encampment in the desert which is fun and interesting.

My daughters are familiar with the concept of the 12 sons from Parshat Vayetze so I now wanted to introduce them to the concept of the twelve tribes that descended from those original twelve. To start we looked at pictures of how the Machane (camp) was laid out. 

For example this one you find in the text of a dvar torah on Bar Ilan's website by Gabi Cohen:

 

Then you start flag making. I found these great little images of the tribes' symbols, printed, cut them out and laminated .Then attached them onto barbecue chopsticks  To illustrate how the tribes were arranged around the Mishkan we took a rectangle of foam, glued in the center an image of the Mishkan and placed all around , in the right order, the flags of the tribes.

 This makes for a great project  to demonstrate where the tribes were situated.